Telephone and Data Systems

Chicago-based telecommunications service company

Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.

Company type| Public

Traded as

| NYSE: TDS
S&P 600 component
Industry| Communications services
Founded| 1969; 56 years ago (1969)
Headquarters| 30 North LaSalle
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Key people

| LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr. (president & CEO)
Products| Local wireline and wireless telecommunication services, Internet services
Revenue| $5.104 billion USD (2016)[1]

Number of employees

| 9,900[2] (2018)
Subsidiaries| U.S. Cellular (84%)
ASN|

* 4181

Website| www.tdsinc.com

Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. is a Chicago-based telecommunications service company providing wireless products and services; cable and wireline broadband, TV and voice services; and hosted and managed services to approximately 6 million customers nationwide through its business units TDS Telecom and U.S. Cellular (NYSE: USM).[3]

The company began as a rural phone company in Wisconsin in 1969. In 1983 it founded U.S. Cellular as a subsidiary. In 2001, it acquired Straus Printing Company and combined it with a previously acquired printing company, Suttle Press, to form Suttle-Straus as another subsidiary.[4]

LeRoy T. Carlson, the founder of TDS, died in May 2016 at the age of 100.[5]

## References

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1. ^ "TDS Income Statement - Telephone and Data Systems, Inc Stock - Yahoo Finance". finance.yahoo.com.
2. ^ "TDS Profile - Telephone and Data Systems, Inc Stock - Yahoo Finance". finance.yahoo.com.
3. ^ "TDS Reports Fourth Quarter Results" (Press release). Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. 24 August 2012.
4. ^ "Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. - About Us - History". www.tdsinc.com.
5. ^ "Founder and longtime Chairman of TDS, LeRoy T. Carlson, passes away at 100 - FierceTelecom". www.fiercetelecom.com. Archived from the original on 26 May 2016.

## External links

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* Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. website

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